Hardly War by Don Mee Choi Ian Seed and forms change – bones

and forms change – bones are replaced with metal

With dazzling formal dexterity and emotional resonance

parenthood and daughterhood

Six years later

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Hardly War by Don Mee Choi Ian Seed and forms change – bonesHardly War, first published in the USA in 2016 and finally published in the UK in 2025, splices the personal and political to dizzying effect in a poetry fluid with forms and genres including reportage, memoir, opera libretto, archival photos and drawings. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional documentary photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she explores her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are